[Vm-dev] Re: platforms/unix/vm-display-X11.c revision 3499 breaks use of fullscreen on Pi

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Dec 17 01:43:07 UTC 2015


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:28:12PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 16-12-2015, at 5:20 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > 
> > So what window manager is rasbian using?
> 
> I believe it is called LXDE, which probably means little more you you than it does me. More than anything it reads like the model badge on a 70???s Japanese car.
> 
> > Does it work properly when you
> > run the VM with -fullscreenDirect on the command line?
> 
> It does. If we really need to I can add that flag to the startup script
> but I can???t help thinking there is a a better way out there somewhere.
> 

Well, according to the internet, which knows a lot more about this topic
than I ever will, LXDE is a "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment". And the
buggy window manager from the <vendor name deleted> extremely popular
Linux distribution is a feature rich, modern, and all around annoying
improvement over simple implementations such as LXDE.

So it actually makes perfect sense that LXDE might be a very simple window
manager that does not understand all the fancy bells and whistles that
have been added over the years, such as the _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
window manager hint.

I think that adding the -fullscreenDirect flag when running under LXDE
is probably the right thing to do.

Dave



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